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The Claggetts opened their restaurant, The Local Farm to Table, in the summer of 2020, amid the first year of COVID. Today, they offer guests a place to relax and refresh."But our main goal in all of it is this: We spent so much time the last several years just sort of watching everyone hold their breath. Everybody was waiting for the hammer to drop [during COVID]. And we were sick and tired of living like that.
She said, "For us, people are still genuinely surprised when they come here and look around and say, ‘This whole beautiful space is just for us?’" "You're getting the best connection ever here — because you're not fighting the rest of the world right now. You're spending time with those you value." She said she tells them, "'I'm here, I'll help you with everything that you need me to do for you while you're here on our farm.'"
Kelly Claggett also said, "And we've seen it not just for dinners, but also for company Christmas parties and weddings." He noted that "in 2020, when we started it, we looked back and saw" how everything came full circle for them, he said. A special event in progress."We decided to listen to God and go back to our vision of the dinners and the weddings on our farm," said Kelly Claggett.
In August 2020, "we started with just one table and 6 chairs down in the trees with lights — and really nothing else. We booked about 6 meals or parties a month, of 2-10 people each time out, on weekends."